Photo Spotlights

Kevin Lampe, from Montgomery County Community College in Blue Bell, Pa., center, demonstrates the “scaling-up” stage in the technique for producing green fluorescent proteins during a workshop at the BIOMAN 2009 conference. The four-day session, running until July 30, is being held by the Northeast Biomanufacturing Center and Collaborative at RIT’s Center for Bioscience Education and Technology. High school teachers and faculty from community colleges and universities from around the region are learning how the biopharmaceutical industry manipulates proteins in the development of medications for diseases such as diabetes and breast cancer.

Phavanhna Douangboupha explains her mobile Web tracking system project to an attendee of RIT’s first Graduate Research Symposium.

Austars Schnore, a technology strategy leader in the Advanced Computing Laboratory at GE Global Research, delivered the keynote address at RIT’s first Graduate Research Symposium. Schnore is currently leading a Shared Vision project for Lockheed Martin within GE Global Research.

New and expanded studios for the School for American Crafts are under construction. The facility is set to open this fall.

The annual WE@RIT Engineering Summer Camp for Girls began July 6. This lab demonstrated an exercise in reverse engineering by taking a computer apart to see how it works.

Young Sam Yu recently won the Astronomical Society of New York Graduate Student award for his research on dying stars, published in the January issue of The Astrophysical Journal. He will accept his award and $500 at the fall Astronomical Society meeting at Union College in Schenectady, where he will deliver his paper in its entirety. Yu, a resident of Daejeon, South Korea, is a doctoral candidate in the Chester F. Carlson Center for Imaging Science. He anticipates completing his doctorate in September.

The computer science department in RIT’s B. Thomas Golisano College of Computing and Information Sciences was awarded a National Science Foundation grant to host a summer workshop, Research Experience for Undergraduates. Ten students, five from RIT and five from across the country, are immersed in the program, which is designed to promote research and encourage students to pursue graduate studies.

A crew from the History Channel visited campus July 2 to interview scientist Don Figer for the series The Universe. It shot footage for two episodes—one on star clusters and the other on astronomical objects called pulsars and quasars—that are expected to air this fall. Figer, director of the Rochester Imaging Detector Laboratory in the Chester F. Carson Center for Imaging Science, was recruited through a faculty development program grant awarded by the New York State Foundation for Science, Technology and Innovation.

The four-day RIT Track Camp for youth 12-18 began on June 29. The camp, focusing on sprint, hurdle and jump, was the first held at RIT.

A 15-foot metal sculpture created by Juan Carlos Caballero-Perez, associate professor in RIT’s School for American Crafts, was unveiled at the Pieters Family Life Center in Henrietta on June 24. Commissioned by Heritage Christian Services, Caballero-Perez designed Stronger Together, a silver-toned abstract piece comprised of two curved columns connected at the top by a circular piece.

Lady Helen Hamlyn (right) and RIT friend Lella Vignelli visited RIT on June 11 to meet with Vignelli Distinguished professor Roger Remington (back right) to get an update on construction of the Vignelli Center for Design Studies, which will break ground in fall 2009.

James Moon, professor in the Kate Gleason College of Engineering, received a 2009 Eisenhart Outstanding Teaching Award on May 7. Since 1965, RIT’s Eisenhart Awards for Outstanding Teaching have honored and celebrated faculty excellence. Winners are chosen through rigorous peer review of student nominations.